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| A colour photo of a person with light skin, blue eyes, and curly blonde hair. They are wearing a black t-shirt, a gold septum ring, and a gold necklace. They are looking directly into the camera. |
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Natalie Joy Gale
| Natalie Joy Gale is a PhD student and Cundill Fellow in History at McGill University. Her doctoral research traces photography’s mediation of the tensions and coalitions between two rural, land-based activist lineages in the United States since 1970: first, Indigenous groups organizing for land rematriation and sovereignty, and second, queer communal, agrarian, and utopian intentional communities. Making her own photographs is an integral part of Natalie’s research practice and serves as a form of embodied engagement with image archives as well as experimentation with (de)colonial representation of land. This project emerged from their two undergraduate honors theses, which can be viewed at heretherenowthen.cargo.site. Natalie graduated from Harvard University in 2021 with a joint undergraduate degree in History & Literature and Visual & Environmental Studies. Before coming to McGill, she spent four years working as a freelance historical researcher, sensitivity reader, and ghostwriter in the public history space. They have worked in curatorial research and public programs at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Harvard Art Museums, and Boston Center for the Arts. From 2022-2024, they also operated a small-scale film lab in Granada, Spain. A settler with deep roots in the Wabanaki land known as Maine, she is a student of Indigenous ways of understanding, relating to, and caring for the land that she calls home. |
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| Ongoing: PhD in History - McGill University; 2021 - Joint BA in History & Literature and Visual & Environmental Studies - Harvard University |
| Contact: nataliejgale@gmail.com |
Natalie‘s freelance projects include:
| Burns Halperin Report, 2025 - Funded by the Ford Foundation to serve as Curatorial Research Fellow for the next edition of the Burns Halperin Report, the annual publication quantitatively assessing the representation of marginalized artists in museums and the international art market Lempicka, 2024 - Conducted historical research for the Tony-winning Broadway musical exploring the life of the bisexual Art Deco icon The Deviant's War adaptation, 2023 - Conducted archival research and contributed screenwriting for the forthcoming film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-finalist history book The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America |
The Book of Queer, 2021 - Contributed historical research, fact-checking, and sensitivity reading for the Emmy-winning limited series aimed at introducing youth to queer history
Combahee's Radical Call: Black Feminisms (Re)Awaken Boston, 2020 - Organized archival research for the Boston Center for the Arts' special exhibition exploring Black feminist organizing and curatorial practice in the Boston area